Fish in Australia facts for kids
Australia has over 5000 described species of fish, a quarter of which are endemic. Seafood and aquaculture are major and highly regulated industries, and fishing for marine and freshwater native fish is popular.
Species of freshwater fish
For its land-size, Australia has a low diversity of native freshwater fish with only 281 described species. This is largely because Australia is a very dry continent with sporadic rainfall and large areas of desert.
The most common freshwater fish are:
Other species include:
- Australian grayling
- Australian smelt
- Climbing galaxias
- Common galaxias
- Eastern freshwater cod
- Eel-tailed catfish
- Estuary perch
- Flathead galaxias
- Golden perch
- Halfbeak/Garfish
- Jardini
- Inanga
- Macquarie perch
- Mary River cod
- Mountain galaxias
- Queensland lungfish
- Rainbowfish
- Retropinnidae
- River blackfish
- Saratoga
- Salamanderfish
- Short-finned eel
- Sleepy cod
- Trout cod
- Two-spined blackfish
- Western carp gudgeon
Marine fish
Abalistes
- Starry triggerfish
- Abalistes stellatus
Ablabys
- Ablabys taenianotus
Ablennes
- Flat needlefish
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